Improvement in band-ruffles



T. ROBJOHN.

BAND RUFPLE.

No: 39,779l Patented Sept. 1, 1863.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS EOBJOEN, .0F NEW YORK, N. Y., AsstGNcR To E. c. Woosrnit, 0F

SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT iN BAND-RUFFLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,779, dated September 1,1863.

which Figure 1 is a face view ofa piece of the ruftle. Fig. 2 is a. back view ot' the same. kFig.3 is a view ofthe same, looking toward the edge of the band. Fig. 4. is'a transverse section of theV strip of muslin or other material of which the band-runde is composed, illustrating one stage ot' themanufactnre Fig. 5'is a side view of certain attachments to a sewingmachine for making my band-ruffle.

Figs. 7 and 8 ,are transverse sections of the guide and folder which prepare thest'rip of inuslin or other material'for the rufiing or plaiting operation.4 l

Similar letters'of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention consists in the manufacture of a band-rutile of a single strip of plaited or gathered muslin or other material, which is made to produce both the rnfe or frill and the band, by stitching through lthe plaits or gathers with two rows of stitching, one of which is also made to secure an edge ot' the material, which is turned in to give a iinish tothe ed g ot' the band. f ,r

To enable others skilled in the art to make my b-.tnd-rufiie, I will proceed to describe it and the means and -mode ot making it by the A, Figs. 1, 2l and 3, is the rufie or frill, and B the band.

a is one row of stitching, which separates or forms the line of demarkatioir between the band and the rufe or frill, and 11` is the other row of stitching, which secures together the portions of the plaits which form the band, near the edge thereof, and -at the same time secures the tnrnedin edge o, Fig. 2, of the cloth at the edge of the band.

The most ecbnomic'ai mode of manufacturing this band-ruffle is bymeans of asewing-machine furnished with two needles and the necessary appurtenances for producing simult-a` Fig. Y'6 is a plan of, certain ot the parts represented in Fig. `5.

neously two rows of stitchings, and having attached to it a folder for turning in the edge c of the band, a plaiting-knit'e for plaiting the strip'after the edge c has been turned in, the said folderand plaiting-knif'e operating on the strip as it is d'rawntoward the needles by means of the feeder of the sewing-machine;

and I will now proceed to describe this sewingmachine and its appurtenances as far as necessary to instruct persons familiar with such machines to manufacture my invention.

(l, Figs. 5 and 6, is the bed-plate of the machine, and d d, Fig.'6, are the holes provided in the said plate for the two needles to work through. Oneof the needles is shown in Fig.

5, indicated by the letter e; but -I do not consider it necessary to represent or describe particularly the mode of operating them,` or the means operating in combination with them to t 1 produce the stitching, and on this point will merely state that the. needles operate parallel withleach other and simultaneously, and that I propose to use in combination with them on theI under side of thebed-plate loopers for producing chain-stitches. f

` D is the feeder, constructed and operating in any Well-known manner.-

VE is the folder for turning in the edge c of the strip, serving lalso as a gage, andgniding Athe strip to the plaiting-knite and needles.

This folder and gage consist of. a tube, the mouth 'twbieh is dat in its transverse section, as shown in Fig. 7, ,and just wideteno'ugh for the passage of a strip of mnslin o r other ma;

terial et' which the band-rufe is to be made,

but which has one side folded or turned under gradually, commencing at some distance from the mouth, till at its opposite end or outlet it has the transverse sectional form shown in' fFig. 8. The other side ot' the said tube is rives motion from a cam, )aand spring z'. The

knife has a strai ght ed ge,which is always transverse to the .direction of the feed movement;` and this edge is pressed down upon the bed C or upon the materialplaced thereon, between the outlet of the guide and folder E and the' presser H, either by means of springs or by i its being itself 'made elastic.l The movement of the knife is directly toward and `from the needle. parallel 'with the feed'movement, andl thesaid movement in the direction of the feed movement commences before but terminates with the feed movement, being sufficiently longer than the latter movement to enable it' to gather up the strip as it issues from the guide and folder, andpushit in the 'form of a plait under the presser H,Which is beveled, as shown in' Fig. 5, to permit the pla-it tocnter easily under it. As soon as the plaits arrive under the presser the-needles descend through them, and they are secured by being,r stitched in the two linesa andJl, the'line 0f stitching b also securing the turned-in edge c, and thus theportion bet-Ween the 'turn or edge k of the fold, before described, and the line aof stitching is formed into a band, While the portion between the line of stitching a and thejedgej is left loose to form the rule or frill. The ed ge j is hemmed in .another machine before the strip is introduced to the machine by which it is converted into the ruffle.

I do not confine myself to the use of any parlticular means of manufacturing theband-rufe; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure .by Letters Patent, isl

The new article of manufacture herein described, consisting; of a band-ruffle composed of a single strip ofplaited or gathered muslin or'other material, which is made,to produce both the rutile and the band by stitching through the parts or gathers with two rows of stitching, one of which is also made to secure the edge ofthe material which is turned in to give a nishitothe band. f

. THOS. ROBJOHN. Witnesses: y

M. M. LIVINGSTON, E. EVANS, J r.v 

